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[Wrote first draft in Heathrow. One editing pass and the addition of the explanation of how one could perform a double-blind study, was done from my "fully furnished" temporary flat -- furnishings include Wi-Fi, yay!]
In a post two months ago, I decided to poetically end the post on a little climax, to leave a lingering [...]

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In this blog of mine, I don’t mean to talk about people, I mean to talk about beliefs. Unfortunately the impact of beliefs are sometimes best understood within the context of the human relationships involved. I try my best to maintain anonymity on this blog, trying to use as vague descriptions of the scenario as [...]

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I have not seen the posters, but a friend informed me that Creation Ministries International (CMI) is giving another talk in Stellenbosch, most likely again on the invitation of Shofar, most likely again renting the Sanlam hall at the top of the Neelsie. This time it is a Canadian, specialising on Noah’s Flood… I believe [...]

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The first couple of the Ten Commandments (numbering is non-trivial, traditions differ):
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them
(From Deuteronomy 5, [...]

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In the wake of The Dark Knight, I thought I’d share a few posts I thought worthwhile. The posts do contain some spoilers, but if you still haven’t seen the movie, um, that’s your loss.
John Wilkins from Evolving Thought writes in The Dark Knight about dualities, order and chaos and Zoroastrian metaphysics (with [...]

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Methodological naturalism. Big word. Here’s what it means…
Consider the theory of gravity. An apple, unsupported by tree or table, falls. That is what it does. And it seems to do it every time. Hold an apple in the air, let go, it falls. It falls once, it falls twice, it falls a million times. And [...]

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As those following the comments may know, I was still wondering whether I should forward the Abusing the Story of Job post to my family or not. And so I continue wondering. If I do send it, I would include a cover letter that goes something like this:
Dear Family,
With some hesitance, I attach a piece [...]

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Nope, I didn’t interview him. I wish.
Pieter sent me a link to a wonderful interview with Pete Rollins, partly discussing his recent book The Fidelity of Betrayal (amazon, kalahari). The interview gives some good perspective on what Pete is on about, and the kind of thing that makes me excited about… well… Christianity, though [...]

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To finishing this particular blog arc on “God”, I thought we’d take a look at the God(dess) of Deacon Duncan from Evangelical Realism. His patron deity is “Reality”, which he names with what he says is the Greek word for reality: “Alethea”. A baby names website defines Alethea as follows:
The girl’s name Alethea \a-le-thea\ is [...]

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About four weeks ago, Theo Geyser introduced me to Peter Rollins — unfortunately not personally, he just mentioned his latest book. At home, I immediately took a look at Peter’s blog. One of the first posts I read, as it caught my eye and resonated with my ways and thoughts:
To be an atheist you need [...]

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